The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-01-15
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

airy D, TO settle prices Tor another year.
PROF. JOSEPH Tosso, a celebrated violin
ist, and composer of the "Arkansas Tray
eler," died at Covngton, KY, on the 9th.
GENERAL CLINTON B. FIsKE presided at
meeting Of the Board Of Indian Commits
sioners at Washington, on the 9th, at
which reports were made Of the various
churches and societies supporting Indian
schools and missions in the United States.
MRS CLEVELAND had a crowded recep-
ton on the 9th, from noon until one
o'clock, and received again in the green
parlor. She wore highly becoming
French gown of dark blue Powered
foulard, with garnet velvet panels and
Spanish jacket of ecru Irish lace.
THE Republican congressional conven-
ton at Eau Claire, Wis, on the 9th, nomi-
mated Hugh ]. Price for the short term
and Nels p. Haugen for the long term,
made vacant by the death Of the late Con-
gresham Price. The nominee for the
short term is son Of the latter
GOVERNOR OGLEsBY's biennial message
was transmitted to the Illinois Legislature
on the 9th
New YORK is threatened with a coal
famine, owing to the strike of the New
Jersey coal-heavers.
BISHOP WATTERsoN, OF Columbus, o.,
has arrived at Rome.
THE Northern Pacific shops at Fargo,
OAK, were burned on the 7th, entailing a
loss of 100000
THE papal consistory has been post
poned till the early part of March.
THE Vatican is debating the Knights of
Labor question in America
| L'Tuu 10 trouad tho m culinary ShOnS Of
the Rhode Island Horses hoe works at
! Providence, r. l., on the 9TH,
PRINCE ALEXANDER of Battenberg an
nounces that he is about to make pro-
longed tour in Egypt
AN explosion occurred at the North Chi
cago gas works on the 18th, by which four
men were more or less injured.
JOHN TAYLOR fell into a mash tub at
Rolph's Vinegar works, at Louisville, KY,
on the 9TH, and was scalded to death
THE inquest into the cause of the Balti-
more q Ohio disaster at Republic, o., was
begun at Tiffin, o., on the 18th
THE Marquis of Queensberry, it is said,
will not deny the charges made by his
wife in her suit for divorce.
r, RoTHsCHILD IL Son, manufacturers,
at Cincinnati, with branches in st. Louis,
Kansas City and Chicago, have made an
assignment.
CHIEF JUSTICE DoRION rendered a de-
cision at Montreal, Can, on the 9TH, sus-
tanning the decision of the judge who
committed Hoke, the Peoria forger and
embezzler, for extradition.
The fourth annual banquet and celebra-
tion Of the Eighth of January was held at
Columbus, o., on the night Of the 18th, I'M
der the auspices of the jackson Club.
IT has been learned at Atlanta, Ga, that
the British Government has refused to
allow the Gate City Guard to enter Eng
land, bearing arms, on their proposed
tour.
ERNST Bros brewery at Chicago was
destroyed by fire on the 18th.
THE funeral services Of Bisn,p Potter
took place at Old Trinity church, New
York, on the 9TH, and the remains were
taken to Poughkeepsie for intermNnt
JAMES ACHEsoN, who embezziGl 5000
from the Hotel Florence at Pullman, H..
was sentenced on the 9TH to pay fine OF
800 and to five months Imprisonment.
Two miners, Joseph Perry, aged seven
ty-three, and Robert Price, aged sixty five
were found starved on the morning of the
9TH in their miserable abode in a basement
at 1925 Loust street, Philadelphia. where
they had lived more than thirty years
THE committee on rules of the House O.
Representatives has resolved to report t
that body resolution setting apart a day
for the consideration of the judiciary
committees substitute for the Edmunds
Anti-Polygamy bill.
jim JONES, colored, was hanged at Belle
vue, La, on the 18th, for the murder OF
Emma Edwards, his paramount, whom he
shot in fit of jealous rage in Novembe
1884 Jones was calm and self possessed
on the gallows. He admitted having sho
the woman His neck was not broken
death resulting from strangulation.
VERMONT has quarantined against Mont
real horses on account of CHAMBERS pre-
vailing in that city
Miss OLLIE brewer, of Middletown. n
Y, has been committed to an insane asy
lum, her insanity being caused by SANDER
GUS reports said to have been circulate,
about her.
Mr., MAURG, the Brooklyn druggist
b whose three children recently died 0
malignant smallpox, died on the 9TH il
the hospital
A NUMBER of the San Francisco cable
car strikers attacked train on the Sth
and severely dubbed the crew and one o
its passengers.
RECORDER SMYTHE, at New York, on tn
Sth, refused to make an order giving tn,
defendants counsel in the railway bribery
cases access to the minutes of the grant
. jury.
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